The Washington metropolitan aurie is the maist eddicatit an, bi some measures, the maist affluent metropolitan aurie in the Unitit States.[3] As of the 2014 U.S. Census Bureau estimate[update], the population o the Washington metropolitan aurie wis estimatit tae be 6,097,684, makkin it the lairgest metropolitan aurie in the Sootheast an the saxt-lairgest metropolitan aurie in the kintra.[4]